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but of late years tliey Lave been constantly diminishing, owing to the 

 number of sealing vessels engaged in killing them. 

 Decrease. They do uot euter Cook's Inlet, and there are no fur- 



No looiiciies on seal rookeries in or about this part of Alaska. We 

 ^°^''^' have never seen fur-seal pups about this part of the 



r.orn only on the coast, and have uo kuowledge of auy beiug bom outsidc 

 iskuKis. Qf ^]^^ rookeries on the seal islands of Bering Sea. 



Metry Monin (his X mark). 

 NicoLi KoojooK (his x mark). 

 Stephan Toochyk (his x mark). 

 Alexy Mahagak (his x mark). 

 TeivAN Ivanhoff (his x mark). 

 Alexander Kamlook (his x mark). 

 Peter Chaeasiiook (his x mark). 

 Stepiian Apavelook (his X mark). 

 Alexy^ Abakee (his x mark). 

 Simeon Tanapee (his x mark). 

 NicOLi Kashagak (his X mark). 

 Tekan Kookew (his x mark), 

 Pavel Abanyngaw (his x mark). 

 Peter Abangac (his x mark). 

 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of April, 1892. 



Joseph Murray, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



l)cj}ositio7i of Alexander Shyha, native fur-hunter at Fort Alexander., 



Cook Inlet. 



pelagic sealing. 



Alexander Shyha, being duly sworn, deposes and saith: I am chief 

 of the native settlement at Fort Alexander, Cook's Inlet, Alaska Ter- 

 ritory, and am by occupation a hunter of aU fur-bearing animals found 

 in this vicinity excepting the fur-seal. I am a native of Alaska, and have 

 resided all my life in the Territory. My occuj)ation as 

 Experience. a huuter has taken me along the coast and to the sea a 



distance of from 20 to 30 miles from the coast. In 

 former years I found great numbers of fur-seals, but within the last 

 Decrease ^*^^^' ycars I havc obscrvcd that they have greatly dimin- 



ished in numbers, so that now I do not lind any off 

 Cape Elizabeth and the adjacent region, where formerly they abounded. 

 1 have never seen or heard of any fur-seal rookery out- 

 sid^°of'BeSno''sla"*" ^^^^^ ^^ Bering Sea. The fur-seals usually appear oft 

 * '^' this part of the coast about the month of May, but 

 they do not enter Cook's Inlet. The disappearance of the fur seal is 

 due to the killing by jielagic seal hunters, who appear 

 lajifscanng"' *" ^'" "^ ^'^^'^'^ uumbcrs off this part of the coast, and the 

 scarcity of the fur-seals is in proportion to the number 

 of vessels engaged in seal hunting. I have never seen a fur-seal pup 

 in this region, and know that they are not born outside 

 pups. ^^^ rookeries on the seal islands in the Bering Sea. 



his 



Alexander Calynac x Shyha. 



mark. 



Subscribed and sworn to before'me this 8th day of April, 1892. 



Joseph Murray, 

 United Slates Treasury Agent. 



